Example sentences of "[Wh det] [adv] [verb] [adv] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , the report appears to distinguish between ‘ genotoxic ’ substances , which are mutagenic and directly damage DNA , and ‘ non-genotoxic ’ or ‘ epigenetic ’ substances , which apparently act indirectly on the genome . |
| 2 | This wide disposition yielded felicitous effects of colour and tone which always fell pleasingly on the ear . |
| 3 | In his life he had risen from being a poor farm boy to become the wealthy entrepreneurial head of a vast business conglomerate , all of it created by his own acumen , and had established a dynasty which still ranks high on the world 's ladder of wealth and social standing . |
| 4 | It is often not appreciated how much of the stresses and assaults that impinge upon us are suppressed into the unconscious — an area which probably lies more on the spiritual plane than the mental one . |
| 5 | In what looks strangely like an open invitation to the competition to plunder what is left of the 8870 base , Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG 's Comet mix-and-match business management software , which previously ran only on the company 's Unix boxes and its proprietary 8870 and Quattro ranges , will soon run on IBM Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co Unix machines too . |
| 6 | In what looks strangely like an open invitation to the competition to plunder what is left of the 8870 base , Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG 's Comet mix-and-match business management software , which previously ran only on the company 's Unix boxes and its proprietary 8870 and Quattro ranges , will soon run on IBM Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co Unix machines too . |
| 7 | Secondly , the ratio h/ez fixes the fine structure constant , a , which otherwise depends only on the speed of light . |